@InCollection{gennart:comparing,
  author = {Benoit A. Gennart and Roger D. Hersch},
  title = {Comparing Multimedia Storage Architectures},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia
  Computing and Systems},
  year = {1995},
  pages = {323--328},
  later = {gennart:bcomparing},
  URL =
  {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org:80/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=10325&page=2},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, multimedia, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Multimedia interfaces increase the need for large image
  databases, capable of storing and reading streams of data with strict
  synchronicity and isochronicity requirements. In order to fulfil these
  requirements, we use a parallel image server architecture which relies on
  arrays of intelligent disk nodes, each disk node being composed of one
  processor and one or more disks. This contribution analyzes through
  simulation the real-time behavior of two multiprocessor multi-disk
  architectures: GigaView and the Unix workstation cluster. GigaView
  incorporates point-to-point communication between processing units and the
  workstation cluster supports communication through a shared bus-and-memory
  architecture. For a standard multimedia server architecture consisting of 8
  disks and 4 disk-node processors, we evaluate stream frame access times under
  various parameters such as load factors, frame size, stream throughput and
  synchronicity requirements. We compare the behavior of GigaView and the
  workstation cluster in terms of delay and delay jitter}
}